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Sexuality In Cristy's Indestructible

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Sexuality is something that most people are afraid to speak of publically. It is something indecent or something immoral, despite most people experiencing sexual attraction. For Cristy, in Indestructible by Cristy C. Road, sex is not indecent. She is completely, and unapologetically sexual, in every sense. She is open about her queer sexuality, and her sexual activity (10, 41 Road).. She is not afraid to talk about the nitty gritty and she doesn’t hide from it, she fully embraces her sexuality (10, 15, 21, 27, 28, 38 Road). This unapologetic sexuality is the major theme throughout Indestructible; this is shown through Cristy. As the story is set in Cristy’s pubescent life, she is discovering herself in many ways. One of the areas of discovery is sexually. She’s realising she “wasn’t that much of a heterosexual,” (27 Road). Cristy is open about this, even though it takes her a little while to figure herself out; once she is confident in her queerness, she speaks out about it and does not hide it. She is shamelessly queer (15, 46 Road). …show more content…

She does not find solace in hiding the fact that she masturbates and fantasises, and is completely open (9, 10 Road). Usually sex is a taboo that is not spoken of, especially during youth. Cristy never saw sex as a taboo, “…I wanted to talk about sex and stop pretending that I didn’t know what an orgasm was,” (10 Road). She didn’t agree with the unspoken rules around sex. She was “sexually active that year and [she] would confuse orgasms with love sometimes” (41 Road). The people around her saw this as a problem. Even her friends thought differently, “Sex talk is for friends, prude talk is for family,” (47 Road). Her friends, like most people, agreed that sex was to be had and not spoken of. Cristy did not share this ideal, that sexuality should be a secret. She was proud of her sexuality (48

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